Re: Ivy League

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: Rebecca Slitt: "Re: Harvard"
• Previous message: Hugh Garnet Mckenzie: "Re: Simulaun, Man (5000year old Iceman)"
• Maybe in reply to: Gil Hardwick: "Ivy League"

I think the IV-Ivy connection was originally linked to sports -- American
collegiate athletics are divided into Division I, II, and III. The way I
heard the story, the Ivies were (and mostly still are) not much match for
the other colleges athletically! (I can say this 'cause I go to Yale!:).
So they were kind of in a "class by themselves" -- Division IV.
About the Ivy League being a WASP thing -- well, it certainly
started out that way, and there are still plenty of "good old boys"
around. But fortunately the Ivy League has gotten much more diverse in
recent years.

Becky

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
to say it."
--Voltaire

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmLONG LIVE MAGEVET AND THE MIDDLE AGESmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

• Next message: Rebecca Slitt: "Re: Harvard"
• Previous message: Hugh Garnet Mckenzie: "Re: Simulaun, Man (5000year old Iceman)"
• Maybe in reply to: Gil Hardwick: "Ivy League"